Product Management, Monitoring and Mining

Posted:
8/25/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Westminster, Colorado, United States ⋅ Colorado, United States

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Product

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[Boiler plate]

Trimble is an exciting, entrepreneurial company, with a history of exceptional growth coupled with a disciplined and strategic focus on being the best. While GPS is at our core, we have grown beyond this technology to embrace other sophisticated positioning technologies, and, in doing so; we are changing the way the world works. Our solutions are used in over 140 countries and we have incredibly diverse lines of business.

Trimble manages the leading global engineering, construction, and infrastructure customers worldwide. We help our customers implement digital project delivery processes and leverage design and construction technologies to deliver more sustainable, safer, and better-quality projects, on time and within budget. Working closely with Infrastructure owners and the AEC community, this team provides thought leadership to solve design, engineering, and data management challenges and improve collaboration and transparency across stakeholders. We leverage emerging technologies that help our customers accelerate project delivery (3D collaboration platforms, BIM, Augmented reality, Machine learning, Autonomy, etc.)

Our employees represent this diversity and can be found in over 30 countries, working closely with their colleagues around the world. Due to our geographic, product and customer reach, there is plenty of room at Trimble for exceptional people to grow. Come position yourself with an innovative industry leader and position yourself for success.

Job Title: Product Manager - Monitoring and Mining

Location: Westminster, CO 

Department: Field Systems - Geospatial

Job Summary:

As a Product Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in defining the vision and strategy for Trimble’s monitoring and mining businesses. The ideal candidate is highly passionate about Trimble solutions, defining and leading our global strategy to ensure Trimble obtains and maintains a leadership position in the mining vertical industry. 

In this role, you will be responsible for orchestrating product success as measured by revenue growth, market position, and profitability. You will work closely with product development, internal sales, channel partners, and end-users to ensure internal prioritization, alignment, and effective advocacy. Ultimate success in the position will be determined by the individual’s ability to intimately understand the product environment, articulate objectives that lead to success, and partner with the wider Trimble community. This role provides international travel opportunities and coordination of events with local Trimble distribution partners and customer and distribution partner site visits.

High-Performance Differentiators:

  • Develop specialized depth and breadth of knowledge in their domain.

  • Interpret internal/external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products, processes, or services.

  • Defining and driving best practices across the organization.

  • Ability to effectively present your product strategy to executive levels.

  • Impacts product innovation and customer success utilizing Trimble solutions.

  • Many tasks will require collaboration and cooperation with various groups that are often not under your direct control. You must be able to represent the marketing team's interest and justify the requests with these groups to achieve your desired result. 

What You Will Do

  • Ensures support for the product is in place at the time of release and monitors the support to ensure it remains consistent with the outlined objectives. 

  • Create strategic partnerships and alignment to open new market segments and opportunities to support key initiatives. 

  • Oversee technical management of the portfolio including quality control, testing and performance analysis of new and existing technologies, and defining technology requirements for customer projects and product development.

  • Conduct customer interviews and gain hands-on experience to ensure market suitability, collate feedback for engineering teams, and manage relationships with Trimble distributors, customers, and internal teams.

  • Manage products throughout the product lifecycle including definition, execution, release, and ongoing management and support.

  • Identify gaps in the product portfolio and develop business plans to address them, monitor product performance, and manage development priorities with engineering teams.

  • Generate marketing and product release materials, schedule sales training and dealer webinars, and work with dealers and end-users on training, support, beta testing, and market research.

  • Support distributors in the preparation of quotations, including providing quotation templates and reviewing quotations before submitting them to end customers.

  • Prepare market requirements and feature design documentation based on voice of customer research and market feedback.

  • Organize and participate in industry events, and trade shows, and travel as needed to Trimble offices, distributors, and customers worldwide.

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring

  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM field of study, Geotechnical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Surveying Engineering, or equivalent experience, plus a minimum of 3+ years of direct experience in the minimum industry.

  • Domain expertise in surveying, monitoring, and mining operations is preferred.

  • Knowledge of additional languages is a plus.

  • Able to take general guidance and apply it to other situations, working with minimal direction.

  • Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority through consensus building, networking, and effective presentation of sound business reasoning.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication.

  • Ability to communicate details with both technical and non-technical audiences.

  • Effective global collaboration through the use of synchronous and asynchronous communication methods and working across multiple time zones.

  • Proven track record of creative problem-solving with strong organizational skills.

  • Effective time management and ability to work in a dynamic environment while responding to changing priorities.

  • Must represent the Monitoring and Mining team in a large organization, ensuring project success through collaboration and gaining buy-in from other Trimble groups not under direct control.

  • Must demonstrate and project a high level of energy and enthusiasm. 

  • Accept a high level of personal responsibility for product success in terms of customer satisfaction from functionality, workflows, and go-to-market strategy.

  • Must demonstrate the willingness to be a change agent and challenge conventional wisdom if the conventional wisdom stands in the way of success. 

  • Experience with tools such as JIRA, DOMO, and Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides) is preferred.
     

Information to Review

The following links are recommended to better your understanding of Trimble, and the products available within this particular division.

Trimble 

Trimble Geospatial

Trimble Monitoring

Trimble Mining

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Pay Equity

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Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Hiring Range:

92750

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122960

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Bonus Eligible?

No

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Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

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Trimble is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and embrace our
candidates' diversity and take affirmative action to employ and advance individuals
without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation,
religion, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, pregnancy (including
childbirth or related medical conditions), national origin, marital status, genetic

information, and all other legally protected characteristics. We forbid discrimination and
harassment in the workplace based on any protected status or characteristic. A criminal
history is not an automatic bar to employment with the Company, and we consider
qualified applicants consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

The Company is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for
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